Queueing

Queue~ a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something. Source: Cambridge dictionary.

The British are queueing masters like we all know. It's an integral part of their culture and etiquette. The below photo sums it up really. People formed a snake style line to wait for tbeir turn to enter a sold out Ed Sheeran concert. 

The art of queueing

Have another look at it. There are no barriers and no security guards. In fact this photo was made by one of them who just could chill out on a balcony. 

In the Netherlands this would be absolutely impossible at a gig like this. Hell would break loose surely.

Poles and queueing
Locals might disagree, but I see a queueing culture. Most people are already in a line more than an hour before planes depart. 

There are no arguments while queueing, in fact most of the time there is this creepy silence. The only thing is that some of these babcias have a bag full of tricks to jump queues (babcia: grandma with superpowers). But people just let her do her thing, no messing around with babcias.

A little later, still one hour before departure

Another example. That same airplane lands when reaching its destination. I made well over a hundred flights between Poland and the Netherlands or Germany, plus a few charter flights from Poland to our holiday destination. The below is not incidental I'm afraid. Let me make the statement that it surely is not rudeness, carelessness or arrogance of the passengers involved. I could notice by their reactions.

I've seen so many people unbuckling their seatbelts right after landing. They just stood up from their seats while still going faster than a Formula1 car on the tarmac. Their hands would go towards the overhead locker and then the fun started. The purser would grab the intercom phone and screamed to those people to sit down immediately. They were really fuming. PLEASE! SIT! DOWN! NOW! 

Normally the passengers would just give them a look like: me? And then would get back in their seats immediately. A few times this did not happen and the purser again said the same in Polish. Even louder. 

The people do this to be at the front of the queue when people depart from the airplane I guess. Or they were just overly excited reaching destination. The funniest thing at Chopin Airport is that low cost airlines use shuttle busesfrom the plane to the terminal. Typical how people rush to gather their stuff from the overhead lockers and wait on the center path until the door opens. That bus will obviously not leave before the last passenger enters it. That was me on most occasions. 

Priceless.